The Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruptio ranks as the longest and most voluminous known outpouring of lava from Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone in more than 500 years. Yvonne Dalschen documented this profoundly altered and otherwordly landscape.

All the elements of wind, water, and earth collided in a unique way, in this exact spot, to create beautiful, abstract, and seemingly unearthly patterns in the sand.

A photographic inquiry that collides the smallest known particles with the human desire for truth.

Solargrams capture and memorialize time as it passes. A reminder of the transience of life and the importance of our time on earth. 

While considering the slow, almost invisible, changes happening around us, I began constructing landscapes to escape into within my apartment.